The entrance at the Home Depot, 3 miles away in Hempstead, features fireplace pokers and yellow sponges.

FORBES: Merchant Princes

Topham, an English fireplug who was five feet ten and weighed two hundred pounds, could bend iron pokers with his bare hands, roll pewter dishes into cannoli, and win a tug-of-war with a horse.

NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World